Turbo spin-echo magnetic resonance imaging depiction of facial nerve compression by a vertebral artery in a patient with hemifacial spasm - Technical note

Neurologia Medico-Chirurgica

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 1996, Pages 737-739

  Katano, Hiroyuki ^a,b   Mase, Mitsuhito ^b   Kamiya, Ken ^b   Banno, Tatsuo ^b   Miyachi, Toshiaki ^b   Yamada, Kazuo ^b  

^a Rinko Hospital   (Japan)

^b NAGOYA CITY UNIV MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

hemifacial spasm; magnetic resonance imaging; turbo spin echo; vertebral artery

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BRAIN ANGIOGRAPHY; CASE REPORT; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FACIAL NERVE PARALYSIS; HEMIFACIAL SPASM; HUMAN; MALE; NERVE COMPRESSION; TRIGEMINUS NEURALGIA; VERTEBRAL ARTERY;

EID: 0029985096     PISSN: 03872572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2176/nmc.36.737     Document Type: Article

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